"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
- Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
"Middle Age" At forty-five, What next, what next?
At every corner,
I meet my Father,
My age, still alive."
- Robert Lowell
"Praise, my soul, the King of heaven" Father-like, he tends and spares us;
Well our feeble frame he knows
Praise him! Praise him!
Widely as his mercy flows."
- Henry Francis Lyte
"Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers' advice: the raw material of the great bores.
- Geoffrey Madan
"His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son."
- John Marquand
"Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee."
- Ashley Montagu
"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
- Bertrand Russell
"Words
There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!"
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
- Gabriel García Márquez
